Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Fritz Swanson

@fritzswanson.bsky.social

390 followers 680 following 890 posts

Co-Founder The Index, and The Printing Stewards. Writer, printer, teacher. Dad. fritzswanson.com President of printingstewards.org Publisher and Printer of theindexpress.com Publisher of themanchestermirror.com @manchestermirror.bsky.social

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · Mar 16

A student confessed that they produced an essay draft with AI, but that they had intended to revise it later so that it would "sound like" them, and therefore they intended to do right. I feel as though I have failed this person so so utterly. What a work "sounds like" has no bearing on its value.

1 3 20

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Saint D'Khari @saintdkhari.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know what I was trippin on but now that I'm not trippin no more I can't believe I was trippin off some bullshit

2 5 17

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 1d

siri, please google: what do when sadness fully envelopes heart

41 13 340

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18h

“We obviously really care about rightsholders and about people,” said Sam Altman.

And to that I say, "Fuck you, no."

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18h

Panther Moderns on the case.

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 19h

Was he angry about rent?

Prosecutors allege the "dystopian painting" had "hundreds of thousands of people in poverty trying to get past a gigantic gate with a big dollar sign on it." www.foxnews.com/us/arrest-ma...

Uber driver arrested for 'maliciously' igniting deadly Palisades Fire, feds announce

A news conference is expected to give details Wednesday on an arrest in connection to the deadly Pacific Palisades fire that killed 12 people in Los Angeles.

www.foxnews.com

2 2 14

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18h

Read the article and then write the short story. Even though you abhor what this guy did, work through your feelings of sympathy with what he has done. In the story, encounter your own inchoate rage. But also, the sorrow of the buddha clearing. Flames licking skyward. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Jonathan Rinderknecht accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

www.latimes.com

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @gluesenkampperez.house.gov · 19h

Consolidation in the emergency vehicle industry is leaving local first responders — and by extension taxpayers — on the hook for increased costs.

I'm leading a bipartisan push to study this so we can better support first responders and save taxpayer dollars.
www.columbian.com/news/2025/oc...

Fire officials face ‘skyrocketing prices, brutal backlogs’ replacing aging vehicles in Clark County

In April 2020, just one month into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vancouver Fire Department replaced one of its aging fire engines with a new rig that cost $614,000. Today, that same fire engine, built by

www.columbian.com

4 4 10

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 19h

The deep critique that monied interests make of this is “how will you pay for it?” But what that really means is: “Don’t get their hopes up, because we won’t pay for this.” We already have the money for a good life. It’s just temporarily in a rich man’s pocket. And it doesn’t belong there.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 19h

It’s like the people pushing AI don’t know or care how humans work. We relate through shared effort and shared struggle. Teachers want to be understood, students want to understand. Each learns from and instructs the other. That IS the relationship.

1 3

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19h

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

1 80 210

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 19h

The bias in media against reporting on things that won’t change should be called the Efficacy Bias. While he doesn’t name it, @joshtpm.bsky.social describes it here. Republicans hacks the bias by being predictably intransigent. Democrats need to learn quick. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful

It’s always a complicated matter to say who is “winning” a shutdown...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2d

“Once authoritarianism shows up to the party, there can be only two kinds of media:

•Propaganda that is sanctioned by the regime

•Independent media that exists to see the authoritarian project ended

There is no third way. Eventually, every media institution will have to choose a side.”

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

7 69 200

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 1d

Love and respect, but there is a direct line from there to here. Because we were enthused by the chat rooms we liked, and ignored the chat rooms we didn’t like. Surely no one was going into the Bronze Age Pervert chat room, right? The Stormfront one? The internet sorts all people by all interests.

David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an interview with Tom
Hanks where he’s just signed up to AOL and he’s all excited about going online and going into a chat group where everyone’s a 2001: A Space Odyssey enthusiast. Maybe we need to get back to that

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 1d

Mill owners confident new powered looms a good investment. Skilled weavers raise concerns about looms in workplace.

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 1d

Fracturing the audience was the focus of the right from the 70s through into the 2000s with Fox News and Talk Radio. But then we gave over editorial control to robots with our algorithmic news feeds. We are awash in Salt Marches. And they have no effect. We need a Gandhi of today.

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 1d

I felt the same when re-watching the movie. Gandhi leveraged the broadcast networks, which created a singular global audience; but we don't live in that world at all. The Salt march was in 1930. Cronkite turned against the war in Vietnam in 1968. The right learned that a mass audience is dangerous.

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo in message for 40th World Youth Day: “True witnesses are humble and inwardly free, above all from themselves, that is, from the pretense of being the center of attention.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

2 16 75

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2d

There is no better evidence that Trump is dying than his recent obsession with getting into heaven. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Trump Says ‘There’s No Reason To Be Good’ Except For...

The president framed morality as a kind of transaction.

www.huffpost.com

2 1

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2d

“…then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl. 2/2

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2d

"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The President Trump continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't…” 1/2

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood.

Unacceptable in America.

100 920 2K

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2d

She’s doing porn songs the right way.

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo during Vespers at Domus Australia: “I t has often been said that the Incarnation first took place in Mary’s heart, before it took place in her womb. This emphasizes her daily fidelity to God.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

1 7 58

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do!

And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 3d

I’m over 50, and my first TV show came out on Friday. My first book, a novella, will come out next year. I’m a late bloomer.

98 51 290

Reposted by Fritz Swanson

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

380 6.8K 22K